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Michelle Paquette's avatar

Beautiful. It’s nice to see a piece that moves away from the essentialism/social construct axis of dialogue (or diatribe?).

As a culture of some technical skill, I feel that, like the Valar, some few among us actively choose the embodiment that best reflects who we are. “I was not born into the wrong body; it is MY body, and I choose to adjust my embodiment to better match myself.”

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Billie Hoard's avatar

100% this!

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Antoinette Accampo's avatar

Interesting. I've always been more of a Tolkien than Lewis fan and have not studied Lewis deeply. Still I think I know him a little better now than I did before reading this.

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The Faith & Sins's avatar

I always felt that passage of Perelandra had a air of Chesterton about it. Talking about things being more real than reality, or in Chesterton view that the world is more Rational in his mind because of his faith. Possible conclusion being that the faith is more real as a ideal than the rationality of his argument or the materialism of Lewis. It also has this sense of paradox to it, I think.

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